Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smith's Record. Dean Smith, crack pilot of National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
Under the new plans which call for actual instruction by September 1931, the old order changeth. A library of 80,000 volumes, including the Humhoidt expeditions 130 years ago, and undoubtedly the report of Admiral Byrd's explorations at the South Pole, will grace one part of the building. Modern geography is closely allied to all other sciences. The research at the universities in Holland, and at Cambridge and Oxford, the close connection with the City Planning Institutes both abroad and at home, the social and spiritual features of widely separated peoples over the face of the globe are merely...
Publisher Black reflected pleasantly on the preceding days' events: his entertainment of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt aboard the Sabalo; a flying trip to Saratoga for the races; another flight to Newport to see the twins, boy and girl, just born to his daughter, Mrs. Alfred J. Bolton. On their way home now, his only guest, his cousin Mrs. J. Walter Lord, had already retired. It was 9:30. Soon he would go to his cabin...
...stone thus returned evinced much flair as a publicist. Expeditions to strange places took his fancy. He developed a close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam...
Bernt Balchen, Norse aviator who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, learned that because his intended five-year residence in America had been broken by two years in Little America he would be penalized, have to wait two extra years before he can file his second citizenship papers...